Women with MBAs face a gender-based pay divide that starts as soon as they grad­u­ate, and plagues them through­out their careers.Women and men start their post-MBA careers earn­ing almost the same mon­ey — $98,000 for women and $105,000 for men — accord­ing to our sur­vey of those who grad­u­at­ed from 2007 through 2009. But the gap then widens sharply. By 2014 men hauled in a medi­an of $175,000 and women, $140,000. That means employ­ers pay women 80% of what men with the same degree take home.

Learn tech­niques and best prac­tices for design­ing smart, visu­al­ly inter­est­ing web icons in any soft­ware, in this guide with senior author James Williamson. First, find out what makes icons most effec­tive and how to plan your design right from the star…

The good news? You don’t have to go it alone. In today’s dig­i­tal­ly pow­ered world, online tools abound that can address a great many of the typ­i­cal freelancer’s pro­duc­tiv­i­ty, work­flow, orga­ni­za­tion­al, and intel­lec­tu­al needs. A well-curated selec­tion of apps, web­sites, and soft­ware pro­vides addi­tion­al arrows in your cre­ative quiver—not to men­tion san­i­ty. To help you refresh your work­flow, we’ve curat­ed 10 apps that have cap­tured our atten­tion:

A soci­ol­o­gist real­ized that if she were ever going to under­stand glob­al inequal­i­ty she would have to become one of the peo­ple who helps cre­ate it. So she trained to become a wealth man­ag­er to the ultra-rich.

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